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Martin Rees

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The Lord Rees of Ludlow

Official portrait, 2019
60th President of the Royal Society
In office
2005–2010
Preceded byThe Lord May of Oxford
Succeeded byPaul Nurse
78th President of the Royal Astronomical Society
In office
1992–1994
Preceded byKen Pounds
Succeeded byCarole Jordan
39th Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
In office
2004–2012
Preceded byAmartya Sen
Succeeded bySir Gregory Winter
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
6 September 2005
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1942-06-23) 23 June 1942 (age 82)
York, England
Political partyNone (crossbencher)
Spouse(s)
Dame Caroline Humphrey, Lady Rees
(m. 1986)
Websitewww.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mjr/
EducationShrewsbury School
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known forRees–Sciama effect
21-cm cosmology
Coining particle chauvinism
AwardsDannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1984)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1987)
Balzan Prize (1989)
Bower Award (1998)
Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2001)
Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2003)
Michael Faraday Prize (2004)
Crafoord Prize (2005)
Order of Merit (2007)
Templeton Prize (2011)
Isaac Newton Medal (2012)
Dalton Medal (2012)
HonFREng[1] (2007)
Nierenberg Prize (2015)
Fritz Zwicky Prize (2020)
Copley Medal (2023)
Wolf Prize in Physics (2024)
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
Astrophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
University of Sussex
ThesisPhysical processes in radio sources and inter-galactic medium (1967)
Doctoral advisorDennis Sciama[2]
Doctoral students

Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FRAS[1][9] (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010.[10][11][12][13][14][15]

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.[16]

Rees is a member of the Board of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Oxford Martin School. He co-founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk[17] and is on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Future of Life Institute.[18]

He has formerly been a Trustee of the British Museum, the Science Museum, the Gates Cambridge Trust and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).

His doctoral students have included Roger Blandford,[2][3] Craig Hogan,[4][5] Nick Kaiser[19] Priyamvada Natarajan,[6] and James E. Pringle.

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "List of Fellows". raeng.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-06-08. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Martin Rees at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. 3.0 3.1 Blandford, Roger David (1973). Electrodynamics and astrophysical applications of strong waves. lib.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 500386171. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.450028. Archived from the original on 27 April 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Hogan, Craig James (1980). Pre galactic history (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.258089.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Hogan, Craig James. "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  6. 6.0 6.1 "CURRICULUM VITAE: Priyamvada Natarajan". Yale CampusPress. Yale University. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  7. "Martin Rees – the Mathematics Genealogy Project".
  8. "Curriculum Vitae – Nicholas Kaiser" (PDF). ifa.hawaii.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 February 2005. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  9. Anon (2015). "The Lord Rees of Ludlow OM Kt HonFREng FRS". royalsociety. Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

  10. Martin Rees publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  11. Martin J. Rees at Library of Congress Authorities, with 23 catalogue records
  12. "2005 talk: Is this our final century?". ted.com. accessed 31 August 2014
  13. "Interviews with Charlie Rose, 2003 and 2008". charlierose.com. Archived from the original on 28 January 2010. accessed 31 August 2014
  14. Anon (2010). "New Statesman Interviews Martin Rees". newstatesman.com. New Statesman. accessed 31 August 2014
  15. Talk by Martin Rees, March 2017 on YouTube
  16. "Martin Rees". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
  17. Lewsey, Fred (25 November 2012). "Humanity's last invention and our uncertain future". Research News. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  18. Who We Are, Future of Life Institute, 2014, archived from the original on 7 May 2014, retrieved 7 May 2014
  19. "Nick Kaiser | Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics". higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk. 7 August 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2018.


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